Do nations need states? Do ethnic, religious, and/or linguistic groups of people – do they, in this age of globalization, do they need to form a country with borders and an army and all that comes along with that? Do they need to be a state?
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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David Denby of The New Yorker tells Steve Paulson that Pauline Kael was the most remarkable person he’s ever known.
E. Fuller Torrey is a research psychiatrist who believes there has been a five fold increase in the incidence of insanity in the last 250 years, and that some infectious agent is to blame.
Reporter Benson Gardner visited several raves for this report on the music, the drug use, the participants and the response from the community.
Christopher Buckley talks with Steve Paulson about his novel "Boomsday," which posits a piece of runaway legislation providing tax incentives for Boomers who choose to commit suicide...sort of an updated "Modest Proposal."
Ariel Levy tells Anne Strainchamps we are living in a Feminist’s nightmare.
Bob Varsha is the play-by-play announcer for Formula One racing on the SPEED Channel. He tells Anne Strainchamps that top teams spend hundreds of millions of dollars on their cars...
Coleman Barks has made it his life's work to translate the poetry of 13th century mystic and poet Rumi.
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